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Dr Afzal Azim
Professor,
Department of Critical Care Medicine,
Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences,
Lucknow
It was in September 2002 when the Department of Critical Care Medicine took its birth at SGPGI and I was lucky and privileged to get
the opportunity to join the Department as a faculty along with Dr A.K. Baronia. I could realize within a few weeks that I should thank the
Almighty for giving me an opportunity to work with one of the most dedicated, learned and thinking intensivist. He always led from the
front with aggressive patient management based on crystal clear understanding of physiological derangements associated with
critical illness. He had the patience to stand in the patient cubicle for hours and hours making precise ow charts and instructions for
residents and nurses. He never believed in verbal prescriptions/instructions keeping in mind the patient safety, adverse events in ICU
and continuity of clinical care. One of his many educating statements always echoes in my mind “To be a good intensivist you need to
be a good nurse”.
As an administrator and a leader he was a hard task master and never compromised on quality. He worked tirelessly for strengthening
the clinical services, excellence in academics and even the ICU physical structuring. It is this quality of his which has given the shape to
the present Critical Care Medicine department which is looked upon as one of the best department in the country and makes us feel
proud of it. I thank him for being my Guru, teacher and mentor and hope that our department lives upto his expectations and we carry
forward his legacy.
Afzal Azim
15
Professor,
Department of Critical Care Medicine,
Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences,
Lucknow
It was in September 2002 when the Department of Critical Care Medicine took its birth at SGPGI and I was lucky and privileged to get
the opportunity to join the Department as a faculty along with Dr A.K. Baronia. I could realize within a few weeks that I should thank the
Almighty for giving me an opportunity to work with one of the most dedicated, learned and thinking intensivist. He always led from the
front with aggressive patient management based on crystal clear understanding of physiological derangements associated with
critical illness. He had the patience to stand in the patient cubicle for hours and hours making precise ow charts and instructions for
residents and nurses. He never believed in verbal prescriptions/instructions keeping in mind the patient safety, adverse events in ICU
and continuity of clinical care. One of his many educating statements always echoes in my mind “To be a good intensivist you need to
be a good nurse”.
As an administrator and a leader he was a hard task master and never compromised on quality. He worked tirelessly for strengthening
the clinical services, excellence in academics and even the ICU physical structuring. It is this quality of his which has given the shape to
the present Critical Care Medicine department which is looked upon as one of the best department in the country and makes us feel
proud of it. I thank him for being my Guru, teacher and mentor and hope that our department lives upto his expectations and we carry
forward his legacy.
Afzal Azim
15
